Angry mob hanged a negro

ANGRY MOB HANGED A NEGRO Man Accused of Two Frightful Crimes Strung Up and Riddled With Bullets. Birmingham, Ala., July 13. Near Coallng. Tuscaloosa county, late yesterday afternoon, Sidney Johnson, colored, assaulted Mrs. Lillian Hodges, a widow re- siding with her children on a farm in the country. Mrs. Hodges was left for dead and is now in a precarious condition. This morning early the same negro attempted the same thing on Mlss Lizzle Cobb, who with her two sisters, who came to her rescue, fonght off the brute after he had well nigh choked them to death. At 10 o’clock twenty angry men who had been hunting the negro all night found him in a deserted cabin and had identified him and hung him to a tree on the roadside, after which they riddled the body with bullets and calmly diepersed. ANGRY MOB HANGED A NEGRO Man Accused of Two Frightful Crimes Strung Up and Riddled With Bullets. Birmingham, Ala., July 13. Near Coallng. Tuscaloosa county, late yesterday afternoon, Sidney Johnson, colored, assaulted Mrs. Lillian Hodges, a widow residing with her children on a farm in the country. Mrs. Hodges was left for dead and is now in a precarious condition. This morning early the same negro attempted the same thing on Mlss Lizzle Cobb, who with her two sisters, who came to her rescue, fonght off the brute after he had well nigh choked them to death. At 10 o’clock twenty angry men who had been hunting the negro all night found him in a deserted cabin and had identified him and hung him to a tree on the roadside, after which they riddled the body with bul- lets and calmly diepersed.